Digital government and public management research: finding the crossroads

Figures & data

Table 1. Public management journals selected for the study (winter 2010 to spring 2016).

Journal	No. of papers	Per cent
Governance: An International journal of policy, Administration and Institutions	4	7%
International public management journal	5	8%
Journal of policy analysis and management	3	5%
Journal of public administration and theory	6	10%
Public administration	4	7%
Public administration review	11	19%
Public management review	11	19%
The American review of public administration	15	25%
Total	59	100%

Table 2. Classification of PM articles into DG categories.

Main category	Percentage	Elements
E-democracy	42%	Participation, transparency, accountability
E-management	27%	Management, planning, personnel
E-services	25%	Services
E-policy	5%	Policies, governance
Total	100%

Table 3. Comparison of methodological approaches.

DG research (Scholl et al. 2009)	Methodology	PM research (Current study)
45.50%	Quantitative	69%
9%	Qualitative	12%
45.50%	Mixed	8%
0%	Literature review	10%

Scholl, H. J. 2009. “Profiling the EG Research Community and Its Core.” In Egov 2009, Lncs 5693, edited by M. A. Wimmer, H. J. Scholl, A. Grönlund, and K. V. Andersen, 1–12. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

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